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... diction, he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety ; he was master
of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melodious words with such
diligence, that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be learned.
... diction, he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety ; he was master
of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melodious words with such
diligence, that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be learned.
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mental operation, metre or musick is no necessaryadjunct : it is however by the
musick of metre that poetry has been ... The variety of pauses, so much boasted
by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the ...
mental operation, metre or musick is no necessaryadjunct : it is however by the
musick of metre that poetry has been ... The variety of pauses, so much boasted
by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the ...
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Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the
writer who first taught .WS..to determine upon principles the merit of composition.
Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through
...
Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the
writer who first taught .WS..to determine upon principles the merit of composition.
Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through
...
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guish poetry from prose had been rarely attempted : we had few elegances or
flowers of speech ; the roses had not yet ... to Dry den ; from whose time it is
apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former
savageness.
guish poetry from prose had been rarely attempted : we had few elegances or
flowers of speech ; the roses had not yet ... to Dry den ; from whose time it is
apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former
savageness.
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They are sometimes grateful to the reader* and sometimes convenient to the poet
. Fenton ... a period or paragraph with the first line of a couplet, which, though the
French seem to do it without irregularity, always displeases in English poetry.
They are sometimes grateful to the reader* and sometimes convenient to the poet
. Fenton ... a period or paragraph with the first line of a couplet, which, though the
French seem to do it without irregularity, always displeases in English poetry.
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